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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much because yesterday's food

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is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some

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of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly
manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this
program, we are going to change all

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of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to

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live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome
to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.

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It is Tuesday, July twenty three, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is Elle David Harris.
I am your host, and this is

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your Daily Portion where we give you
God's word every single day, and today

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is no exception. We are continuing
in our Lesson study series through the Book

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of Mark, and our caption for
today is the Reason for the Parables,

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The reason for the Parables. We'll
get into that in just a moment,

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continue to build faith and fellowship.
Let's go ahead and pray, and then

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we will get underway. Father,
thank you for this morning, for the

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opportunity to listen and do according to
your word. Father, Please give us

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your holy spirit. Help us not
to make this just an intellectual or academic

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exercise, but help us to live
live according to your word. In Jesus'

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name, I pray, Amen and
amen again. The reason for the parables?

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Okay, and so why would Jesus
invest his precious time to deliver parables?

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Yeah, type it in a chat, like, why would Jesus in

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his precious time to deliver these parables? Because really and truly, Jesus only

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had a little bit of time on
planet Earth. We're not talking about Jesus

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as the one who is in heaven, the one who is in his pre

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incarnate state, meaning before he took
on a body and delivering words in scrolls

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or on parchment. Like, it's
not that he has three and a half

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years of public ministry and he has
to make it matter. Why would he

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invest his precious time to deliver parables? Well, let's just continue thinking about

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this from the book of Mark,
chapter four, verse ten. The Bible

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reads, when he was alone,
those around him with the twelve asked him

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about the parables. Verse eleven.
He said to them, the secret of

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the Kingdom of God has been given
to you. So God is saying,

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Jesus is saying in this case that
I've given you the secrets. All of

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the mysteries that are for humans are
for our learning. Remember that for your

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learning. Remember that passage. So
the secrets of God that are for our

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learning, he gives those to us, the secrets to the kingdom of the

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kingdom, He's given those to them. But to those outside, everything is

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in parables. I tap danced around
this the other day, and I know

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some people were a little bit confused. But now we're gonna sit right here.

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And so sometimes we make it that
these parables, which are incredible,

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and even in the book Christ's object
Lessons, they all have several of the

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parables put together from E. G. White's writings, and this is appropriate.

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But sometimes we make it seem as
if the intent was for God to

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speak the parables to people who are
fully receptive to God's will, sort of

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like the perfect ground, the good
ground hearers, and it was like a

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spiritual lesson study, and it is
a spiritual lesson study. But hear what

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Jesus is saying. He said,
I'm gonna give this stuff to you directly.

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But those who are not my people, those who are not receptive at

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this point, those on the outside, everything is imparable, so that although

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they look, they may not see. Although they hear, they may hear

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but not understand, so they may
not repent and be forgiven. And so

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Jesus is saying very simply that if
you have ears to hear, then you

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will hear. Well, how do
we get ears to hear? Jesus as

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the one who now we are submitted
to, gives us full understanding, and

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they are no longer parables. The
symbols go away. They give way to

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the truth that God intended to teach. In fact, I wasn't planning on

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doing this, but I want to
go to the Bible Book of Revelation because

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I think we can make even more
sense out of it if we go to

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the Bible Book of Revelation. It
reads here, beginning at verse one,

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the revelation of Jesus Christ, which
God gave unto him. So we see

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that God gave revelation through Christ to
show unto whom his servants things which must

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shortly come to pass. Let me
just say this to you. If you

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feel like the prophecies of Revelation the
prophecies of Daniel are impossible to understand or

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too difficult, why does it have
to be so difficult, then what you

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brothers and sisters need to do is
check your servanthood. If the parables are

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difficult to understand, or you're one
what in the world is this? And

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you're saying, God, I need
you to speak to me plainly, but

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you're not getting him hearing him plainly, then that means you or I we

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have to check our servanthood, because
it says that He is showing it to

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his servants which things must shortly come
to pass, and signify it by his

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Angel unto his servant John, who
bear record of the word of God and

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of the testimony of Jesus Christ,
of all the things he saw. Now

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there are three blessings here. I
want you to get these blessings. Blessed

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is he that readeth, and they
that hear of this prophecy, and keep

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the things which are written therein,
for the time is at hand. So

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Jesus in this revelation is saying that
you're blessed when you read, you're blessed

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when you hear, blessed when you
keep the words that are written in this

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book speaking of revelation, because the
time is at hand. So in the

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Book of Daniel we see in chapter
twelve and verse four he says that the

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vision was to be sealed up.
The vision was to be sealed up.

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But here the revelation is opening.
That's why it's called revelation, like to

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reveal, like that's he's opening it
up to our understanding. Who's understanding,

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servants of the Living God, Blessed
be his name. Oh, and then

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there are blessings. And so what
God is telling us is the way in

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the way to receive understanding in clarity
and not in parables, is if we

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become his servants. Let me read
it back from the Book of Mark,

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because I think we need a re
education, a reprogramming here, because so

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many people have missed this point.
When he was alone those around him with

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the twelve acts about the parables,
what are you to talking about? Jesus?

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He said to them, the secret
of the Kingdom of God has been

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given to you, but to those
outside, everything is in parables or proverbs

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parables to them. The secret given
to you. Blessed is the one that

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hears. Blessed is the one that
does right. Blessed are the ones that

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read. Because the time is at
hand. God wants us to hear him,

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not just in parables. He wants
us to have repentant spirits that turn

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away from sin, that open up
and perk up when He speaks, so

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that we can be like those who
are the good soil hearers. That the

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word doesn't just come into our hearts
and then something cause it to go right

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back out, but that the word
takes lodgment, as we say here in

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Jamaica Land we love, it takes
lodgment in our hearts and then the fruit

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comes from it. So the parables
h really aren't what we thought they were.

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Maybe somebody mistrained us. So God
is teaching us that we can hear

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from him plainly, okay. And
so God wants to reveal the truth to

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those who open, who are open
to receive it. That's one of the

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reasons to fulfill prophecy. That's another
one of the reasons to challenge listeners to

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think and reflect and to repent.
That's another reason to protect spiritual truths from

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being seen as unimportant. Only those
who are willing to yield our will to

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God will understand these things in the
fullness. Why because those secrets of the

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kingdom are only revealed to God's servants. The others, it'll be parallelus.

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Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread

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alone, but by every word that
comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with el
David Harris, Make it a great day. Yeah,